Washington Irving
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Washington Irving is a book by Henry W. Boynton. The contents list chapters titled Early Years and Surroundings, Man about Town, A Public Character and The Man Himself.
Under the heading Early Years and Surroundings, the text says that Irving's name stands as the first landmark in American letters. One story from his schooldays has Irving in the part of Juba, called a little sooner than he expected, and ten years old and deep in love with the leading lady. The book quotes Walter Bagehot, who says that, whatever may be the use of this sort of composition in itself and abstractedly, it is certainly of great use relatively and to literary men. The text says the charm of creative genius is less the charm of mind than of feeling.
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- Author
- Henry Walcott Boynton
- Pages
- 50
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
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